The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-30 00:00:00

'NE WORD MORE TO THE BISHOP OF EXETER. Scarce less do Virtue's charms entice The hesitating soul from sin, Than cloth the hideousness of Vice To Virtue's lovelier aspect wing. So in the Church, the rancorous Priest, By pride, and scorn, and hatred driven, May not be he who serves the least The cause of truth, the cause of Heaven. Prelates there are in mercy sent To show how Christian crowns are won, And Prelates who seem only meant To teach us what to fear and shun. B. LITERATURE. m r T HE AMARANTH Baily, London, 1838. r• Hervey, t h e Edi tor o f t hi s A nnua l, apo l og i ses i n his a eface for it s not b e i ng all that he could have w i she d i t to b e , b y Ying that he has not been allowed sufficient time for pre ration. H e needed not to have put forth this apology, for t he Amaranth is exceedingly well got up—quite as well 1Y othe r o f i ts class—and conta i ns not a f ew contribu ns in prose and v erse , of which the ablest writers of the F might be p rou d . Th e " Old Abb ey " i s a Scottish t jailed, from t h e pen of Allan Cunn i ngham . Th e versifies to"lssprightly an d s pi r it e d, an d there are one or two all udes of deep feeling in it, thrown out, quite unconsciously It were, which the reader relishes the more, for that very "conscio usness. " Ott a Mission to the East Indies , " is a sonnet by the Rev. W. L. Bowles. It is of a calm and meditative character, as beseems the subject, and in this fcsPect reminds us of some of Wordsworth's " devotional" 11 1 lets, " A New Nightmare" is a lively rhymed extra agariza, suggested by a visit to Dr. M ante ll' s F oss il Mu se,llllm• It is b y one of the a uthors of Rejected Addresses. ' tic , e " Bird of th e C anar i es " di s pl a ys all that grace and ar ; aa ss of poeti ca l garniture for which Mr. Hervey's poems remarkable. In some of the more ornate passages, b,lowever, there i s an appearance o f e ff or t w hich detracts erill their effect. "An E ng lish Song" breathes a fine, h eal thy nati ona l sp i r i t t h at d oes cre di t to the head and cert of M ar y H ow i tt. I n M r. Whi te h ea d' s " Death of o atterton," we recogn i ze t h e true poet i c sens ibili ty . Th e u ghts are de e p an d i mpass i one d, an d t h e l anguage con c'l3 Ise and energetic. The description of Envy, " Who sees the ground before her darkened quite By her own shadow, hateful as the light," capital. Jerrold's " Epitaph of Sir Hugh Evans" is a quaint littl e sketch that points a sound and impressive 41 0 ral. The plates, which are not less than thirteen in n umber, are some of them of a very superior order. Of such a sort are " The Devil's Pool," a luxuriant pastoral l andscap e , with some quiet sheep pasturing on the fore ground, near an old tempest-battered oak, and herds of cattle roaming about the green fields in the intermediate distance ; the " Home Bird," a half-length picture of a Young girl, whose countenance beams with sweetness and good nature ; " Dutch Fishermen," a bold sea-sketch, from an original painting by Vickers ; the " Noon-day Meal," a clever family groupe, consisting of a sun-burnt, rough Visaged English peasant, and his children, a boy and a girl ; •` Margate, from the Sea," which is an admirable likeness id this far-famed Cockney watering-place, and many others which we regret that our very circumscribed limits prevent us from noticing as they deserve. MELTON DE MOWBRAY. 3 Vats. Bentley, London, 1838. Melton de Mowbray is a tale by no means devoid of tent—indeed, in some places it exhibits ability of a supe tlFr orde r —b ut i t wants compression ; the descr i pt i ons, Which are of frequent occurrence, are too much spun out a nd elaborated ; especially those at the commencement of th e t s ory, where we are introduced to Fox, Sheridan, the Duke of Norfolk, and many other of the more celebrated ta re i quente r3 of Brooke s ' s , i n th e y ear 1791, the date of the t .! . We do not mean to de n y that the sketches of these 'fluent individuals display much graphic skill, but the Pains -taking is too visible throughout them, wherefore we r id ee th em, as they were wr i tten, w i t h an e ff ort . W e ex (4, how ever , f rom t hi s o bj ec tion, the vigorous portrait 111 Wears the appearance of having been drawn from th life) of the high-minded Whig politician, De la Bere, °, though usually voting with the Fox and Sheridan will not allow himself to be trammelled by the e ai lls of p ar ty. There is truth in this portrait, 44 d fr es h ness and energy, w hi c h p os sesses the rare merit o f b e i ng highly coloured, without bein g over ained. In th management of his incidents the author is Generally successful, they are lively, natural, and well put together, which, considering their variety, is no slight re- Mlrnendation. But the character of the hero, Melton de o wbray, is the principal charm of the story. It is a full ength likeness full of " mark and likelihood" of the gay en d wealthy "man aout town," who was the delight and spirit a nd of our grandmothers ; and is maintained with consistency. The trial scene, where this young _ut'ghtless sprig of fashion stands at the bar of justice as t irminal of the deepest die—in fact, as a murderer ; and 48 8 . 1 which immediately follows, where he is represented I nitnured within the walls of Newgate, abandoned by all it's rich and titled friends, with the sole exception of De Bere, w ith w h om h e h o ld s a di a l ogue o f a s t rong ly im iPassioned nature :—these parts of his novel show that the 4 uthor possesses not only narrative, but also dramatic, thility. Nor must we omit his description of the hero's night journey from Dorchester to London by the mail, 'With the Crabbe-like sketch of the blank, comfortless early morning fog in the metropolis, which it absolutely tves one the horrors to read. Altogether Melton de Mowbray is a vivid and skilful picture of fashionable life in Leaden, about thirty or forty years since. LORD DURHAM'S SUCCESSOR.—(From a Cor- A. Pondent.)—Rumours in generally well-informed quarters give the following:—" The Marquis of Normanby is to sue !et'd Lord Durham in Canada, and the Duke of Richmond is to be appointed to the Lord- Lieutenacy of Ireland."— ' o wilig Herald. We are authorised to contradict the report that her ilaiesty had written an autograph letter requesting Lord Dar fo to remain in Canada. There was no foundation whatever r this report—Morning Chronicle. [We should infer f rom this statem en t th at L or d D ur h am i s about to return ; but why was not the report contradicted ere this ?] Th. T • • 7 . • N o , Li mer i c k Standar d states that her majesty is eery about to visit Ireland. k ik he Earl and Countess of Winchilsea, who have visiting the Earl and Countess of Delawarr , at th eir seat, eturst Park, in Sussex, have left for St. Leonard's. at Lord Leveson, M.P., has left the British Emba ss y Paris for Rome, to join his noble relative, the Duke of "evonahire. The Earl of Hardwicke has left Ravensworth ast da y le where his Lordship proceeded to after passing a_few . 4 t Al a v Castle, o the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland t for his seat, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. I) Per h , a TI ONAL GALLERY.—This exhibition was re been-' Yesterday for the reception of the public. There has Irer ae b° addition or alteration, except that the pictures and 4 cate: have been dusted. The number of visitors was very horair ° wing no doubt to the time for opening not be in g g e- Y kn own. bAce,o -•DE - NT TO LORD MoREToN.—A few days y h;: e accident occurred to Lord Moreton, who, accompanied I . 4 4, i ll e ffrcom, was driving a fresh blood horse at a trial in tre e , ester-park, when the animal suddenly started at a et ia. `lndous pace, and his Lordship, finding there was no th e ll :. ( ' of stopping' him in any way, drove him up a bank wi th Plisi e ~s r of overturning the vehicle, which was soon accom- Vel "d his Lordship and groom were thrown with some - e• Thegroom was thrown " out of harm's way , " but for Lordship fell under the horse, where he was obliged to lie His ea rly ten minutes, until the groom could collect assistance. inns ordship h as spra i ne d b o th ancles ; the horse is not m- Al' and the groom is somewhat hurt in his side. — W il ts LPende n t. elte rn Wl . 1413 STEAM. —Yesterday morning much ex- Itail w -e t was created along the line of the Great Western oe r a Y , between Maidenhead and London , by t he followin g train f ne e- On Sunday night, after the departu re of the last %eta 1?n 1 Maidenhead, eight carriages were placed o n the heir & m e , opposite the station offices, preparatory to their TO dispatch e d b y t h e ear ly t r ain (half-past seven) to town. '3 7 coos ithtl isted of two open carriages, one of the second . class, the , e remainder of the first class. Yesterday morning, on li gh i e rvants of the Company coming to their duties at day statio of the first class carriages only were found at the 1f0u,,,, 11 . At a later period of the morning it was, however, tart l that the storm of Sunday night had forced the first four die age 4 alohr , the rails towards London. Men were instantly P 4 tched down e* lineobstruction had oc curred. the to see that no ria.. e „ On their arrival at Slough, the first and second.eckar rer7ll w_ere found to have stopped, and having been found at liv o :!_ved from the rails, the other two carriages were h nwood Serubbs, nearly twenty miles from Meaden ead. a A G i tt RA cE DARL I N G .—O n Tuesday afternoon ther e bri fi ne g IThched from M r . B rown ' s building-yard, Perth, a D o d. 1 40 tons register, which has been chartered for St. g° , by the popular: name of Grace Darling. 'at t "i e' d \V ednesday last, Andrew Rutherford, of Du nse, tt, or n "ler, was apprehended at Wooler, when on his w a y whyso n Morpeth market, under suspicion of being the per rn stole th e fl oc k o f s h eep , t h e property o f Mr. Oliver, a s w _ field at Ladykirk, as noticed by us a fortnight ago. I:enlici„t 4. i s er t: r h g t o t i o ng Dunse in the custody of a sheriff's officer, an examination there yesterday he was the p 7 to Gre en l aw gao l. S us picion has been directed to tigh t fiom the following circumstance :—About a fort toe, Igo he sold a sheep, somewhat lame, to one Nichol Bur -2'l'lllloler, in Dunse, which was immediately slaughtered. Burton bas expressed an opinion that the animal he purchased aki n • Ina s 'he'd as Mr. Oliver's are described to have been; the was ik the hands of the tanner, therefore the marks were • 'vvnat obliterated, but the evidence altogether has war t,.• ‘e_d . the Justic es i n comm i tt i ng the prisoner. It is conjee -1,7e: that the evmainder of the flock, amou ntin g to 39, hav e e driven to Morpeth market.....l3eywiek ,Advertiser. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—This morning her Majesty, attended by Lady Littleton, left the Castle and proceeded under an escort of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) to Kensington Pa lace. The Queen visited the Princess Sophia, and remained at the Palace till past four o'clock, when her Majesty left on her return to Windsor Castle to dinner. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by Lady Mary Stopford, drove to Kew for the purpose of paying a vis►t to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the Ladies Eleo nora and Constance Paget, left the Castle this morning for their seat in Staffordshire. The high winds last night did much damage in the Park ; a number of the old and ornamental trees have been blown down, and among them, we regret to say, is Shakspeare's Oak, of which— _____ "An old tale goes, that .Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragged horns ; And there he blasts the tree." The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Mary Stopford, left Windsor Castle yesterday morning for Kew. The Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cam bridge come to town yesterday. His Royal Highness visited the Waterloo Model, at the Egyptian Hall. The Princess visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and partook of a dejeune with her Royal Highness. The Duke and the Princess returned to Kew in the afternoon. The American Minister, and Mrs. Stevenson, have arrived in town from a tour in the North. The Ministers of Austria, France, and Prussia, assembled yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office. Lord Palmerston transacted business yesterday at Lord Melbourne's office. Lord Howard de Walden transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Department. The Chancellor of the Exchequer transacted business yes terday at the Colonial Department. The Agent fop Trinidad transacted business yesterday in Downing- street. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from Downing-street for Lord Melbourne at Windsor. Despatches, dated the 20th inst., were received yesterday at the Foreign Department from Sir George Villiers, the British Ambassador at Madrid. _ - Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign De. partment for the British Ambassadors resident at the Courts of Berlin and Vienna. _ _ Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign De partment for the British Ambassador resident at the Court of Hanover. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign De partment for Lord Ponsonby, the British Minister at Con stantinople. Despatches from Sir George Arthur, Governor of Upper Canada, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. In the afternoon despatches were received from Captain Prescott, Governor of Newfoundland. Prince Wiasemski left Mivart's Hotel last evening on a tour in the manufacturing districts. His Excellency Count Woronzow, Governor-Gene ral of New Russia, and suite, arrived at the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, from Wilton House, near Salisbury. Lord and Lady Albert Conyngham are on a visit to Lord Forester, at Willey Park. The children are gone to Bifrons, the seat of the Dowager Marchioness of Conyngham, in Kent. Lord Stormont has taken a house for three months about twelve miles from Scone Palace, to which he removed his establishment last week. Lord Glenelg left town yesterday for Leamington, Warwickshire. Lord and Lady Bloomfield have left Loughton, their seat in Ireland, for town. On his Lordship's arrival he will immediately resume his duties at Woolwich. Lord Melgund, M.P., is on a visit to the Earl Fitz- William, at Wentworth House. Lord Northwick has left North wick Park, in Glou cestershire, to pass a few weeks at Cheltenham. Sir Charles and Lady Coote have left Baden-Baden, and gone to Rome. They intend to pass the winter at Naples. The Hon. William and Lady Louisa Duncombe are gone on a visit to Oakley Park, from Worsley Hall, their seat in Huntingdonshire. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley, M.P., is confined to his room at Berkeley Castle, owing to an accident received in hunting. Mr. and Lady Georgiana Codrington left Park-lane on Friday last, to join the family circle assembled at Dodding ton Castle, in Leicestershire. Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., has arrived at Melton Mowbray, where the Dowager Lady now is. BISHOP OF CARLISLE.—The Hon. and Right Rev. Prelate left Rose Castle last week, on a visit to Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M. P., Wales. —Carlisle Patriot. We have the satisfaction to communicate to our readers, upon authority, that the Bishop of Worcester is ma terially better. His Lordship has not suffered any relapse, and is proceeding steadily towards convalescence.— Worcester Guardian. . The Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, who is now on a visit at Chillingham Castle, accompanied by the park keeper, went out on Monday for the purpose of shooting one of the wild oxen of the breed peculiar to Chillingham Park. This is an undertaking of peril and difficulty, on account of the extreme wildness of the cattle not permitting an approach. To avoid agitating the cattle, the ox was cautiously detached from the herd, when the Hon. Gentleman, by a well-directed aim, despatched the animal by a single shot from a rifle,— Newcastle Journal. SCONE PALACE.—The Earl and Countess of Mansfield, and the Ladies Murray, with the Viscount Stor mont, the Hon. Charles Murray, and Captain David Murray, have been passing the autumn in Perthshire, in strict seclu sion, in consequence of the severe indisposition of Mr. C. Murray, who is now convalescent, and preparing to go to college. DOVER, OCT. 28.—His Excellency, the Duke d'Alva, thekSpanish Ambassador, arrived here on Friday night by the Royal George steamer, from ;Boulogne, and went to the Ship Hotel, where a guard of honour was in attendance from the 27th regiment. Yesterday morning his Excellency left the hotel under a salute from the guns at the heights ; and having called on Lord Fitzroy Somerset, on the Marine Parade, en passant, proceeded on to Weimer Castle, to pay a visit to the Duke of Wellington, before leaving this part of Kent for London. The Duke of Newcastle and the Ladies Pelham Clinton are still residing at their delightful seat, Hafod, near Aberystwith. His Grace and family intend passing Christmas at Clumber Park; Notts. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln, who are making a tour on the Continent, are expected to re turn the latter end of February. The Duke of Buccleuch's birth-day, on the 25th of next month, will be celebrated, as usual, in a great many places in the vicinity of his Grace's vast estates, with the splendour and hospitality peculiar to Scotland, where the Duke is so truly liberal a landlord, and so substantial a friend to the poor. —Berwick Warder. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, ac companied by the Misses Percy, paid a visit on Wednesday to Coquet Harbour, Warkworth, when the Union Jack was hoisted on the ancient castle, and the ships in the harbour were decorated with their colours. —Newcastle Journal. Mr. Hope arrived in Mansfield-street yesterday from Deepdene. Mrs. Rothschild has given several very sumptuous dinners lately at Gunnersbury Park, and among the company have been the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Captain David Murray is expected at Langham House this day, from Scotland, to join the Scots Fusilier CHARGES OF LUNACY. MR. PATERNOSTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ESTEEMED SIR,—I wrote a congratulatory note to Mr. Paternoster on his deliverance, and his reply, which reached me last evening, is enclosed. He shall not be allowed singly to fight the great battle—society is not in so unso cial a state. The liberal, humane, patriotic Members of both Houses of Parliament will respond to the whispers of humanity, and a general investigation will produce a proper system, and perfect safety. I am, esteemed Sir, Yours respectfully, Oct. 24, 1838. HUMANITY. The following is Mr. Paternoster's letter, from which the public may judge of his state of mind : DEAR SIR,—I ought to have acknowledged sooner your kind note of the 13th, but you will, I am sure, make every allowance for the omission, for my health has been utterly ruined by the persecution I have suffered. lam obliged to keep myself as quiet as possible, and am unable from the weak state in which I am, to do what I should wish in re turning thanks to those numerous and kind friends who have so strongly espoused my cause. But 1 trust I shall not, there fore, be thought ungrateful: believe me lam not. The kindness of my friends has drawn more tears from me than the cruelty of my enemies. To none do I tender more sincere and warm thanks than to yourself, and proud should I be to have the honour of an interview with you. My case is not a private but a public one; as such I have ever considered it, and am determined to carry it through on public grounds, and, as I trust, for the public benefit. It is a subject that comes home to every man's bosom, for if such an unprovoked and ferocious outrage be permitted to pass unpunished, no man is safe one single minute; and the boast of a free Englishman, that every privation of his liberty must be according to the law, and by the law, is indeed a vain boast. The public are yet in igno• rance of the real causes which led to this aggression ; but all will come out in a court of law. I was undoubtedly doomed to confinement for life; the PUBLICITY SAVED ME-but for the police report I was a lost man. As was remarked by the chief instigator, " it was badly managed ;" had the men suc ceeded in getting on the handcuffs, they would have managed it better. Every annoyance and cruelty was afterwards re sorted to, in order to produce the insanity so much desired, and thereby justify themselves before the public. A JUST AND MERCIFUL GOD SUPPORTED ME THROUGHOUT, IN ORDER, AS I CANNOT BUT THINK, THAT I MIGHT FROM MY OWN EXPE RIENCE, PROVE A BENEFIT TO MY FELLOW CREATURES ! I cannot write more now. Once more I thank you ; God will reward you--I cannot. A continuation of your writings would certainly be most useful, both to me and to the public, who little dream of the horrors and atrocities of Private Lu natic Asylums. Believe me, dear Sir, Your obliged and grateful Servant, RICHARD PATERNOSTER. Thursday, Oct. 18, No. 49, Haymarket. P. S. You will make any use you may think proper of this etter. Guards, The Duke of Argyll and Miss Campbell arrived in Park-lane on Saturday, from a Continental tour. The Earl of Bandon has left Dublin for Castle Barnard, near Cork, where his Lordship intends to pass the winter. The Earl of Lichfield has left town for Newmarket. The Earl and Countess of Warwick, accompanied by Lord Brooke and Lady Caroline Neeld, have arrived in town from a Continental tour. The Noble Earl and family shortly leave for their fine old family seat, Warwick Castle. The Earl of Shannon, we are happy to state, is much improved in health within the last week. His Lordship is not at his own mansion in Connaught-place, but is staying at the Hyde Park Hotel. Lord Brougham daily enjoys a promenade, and visits the interesting objects of Dover. The Duke of Sussex is now sojourning with Lord Dundas, at his Lordship's seat, near Guisborough. The Duke has accepted an invitation to visit Middlesborough, to view the improvements whieh capital and enterprise have, within the last few years, effected in that place. Yesterday (Friday) was appointed for the visit; on which his Royal Highness was ex pected to be accompanied by his Noble Host, the Duke of Cleveland, and other individuals of distinction. A public breakfast was to be given to him on this occasion. But on Wednesday afternoon the Committee of Management received a letter from Lord Dundas, stating that as his illustrious guest was labouring under indisposition, the visit must for a few days be necessarily deferred.—Durham Chronicle. The Earl of Leicester has much improved in health during the last month, and Holkham-hall is expected to he full of company during the ensuing month. Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Stanhope have arrived from their seat in Yorkshire. Earl Spencer is still staying there. The Earl of Besborough and Lord and Lady de Manley have returned to Canford House, Wimborne, Dorset, from the north. Miss Kemble, the youngest daughter of Charles Kemble, who has been received in the most flattering manner by the Austrian Imperial Court, the court of Bavaria, and other distinguished circles, as a vocalist, was to have made her first appearance on the Italian stage about the present time, but, in consequence of the death of her mother, her debut has of necessity been postponed for the present. Edinburgh has long since been famed for its system of Education, both in a moral and classical point of view. In this day's Sun will be found an advertisement from a gen tleman well qualified to undertake the edu cation of young gentleinen, and is worthy the attention of parents and gmfkrOiPs• THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1838. COWES--ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) OCT. 29.—Loss OF ANOTHER OF THE COWES PILOTS.— A light breeze from the eastward springing up about mid day yesterday, the captai ns o f some o f t h e s hi ps i n our roa d s, anxious to proceed to their destinations, got their pilots on board, and made the best of their way out of the Needles, though there was no prospect of the wind's standing. James and Edward Corke, the former master of the Nancy pilot ves sel, went out with the French brig Messager, at 7i p.m., they left her outside, the wind then blowing fresh from the S. E., it raining, and very thick, they run inside and came to in Yar mouth Roads. The gale increased, and veering round to the southward, and about 3 a.m. it blew a hurricane from the westward ; as it was not safe to ride off Yarmouth any longer they slipt their cable, and proceeded under bare poles for Cowes. Edward Corke went below with the other bands to prepare another anchor, leaving his brother James at the helm ; but a few minutes had elapsed when their attention was drawn to the deck by the booms flying about; it appears that the vessel rolled very much, and a heavy lurch threw the boom out of the crutch and knocked the unfortunate man over board; when they got on deck they could see nothing of him. He has left a wife and six small children, with every proba bility of a seventh being added in a few days, also an aged father and mother, whose chief dependance he was ; the father has been blind some years, and is now 80 years of age. He was very much against going out with the brig, and endea voured to persuade the Capt a i n no t t o start, and during the night expressed his anxiety for her, and his belief that she must be lost in the gale, but Providence ordained it other wise, the Captain having followed in a bark, which had kept her pilots on board, and who, when the wind came round, run for Cowes Roads again. She passed the pilot-boat in the night off Yarmouth. STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, 1838. It will be a satisfaction to all those concerned in the promo tion of Railway Bills before Parliament to learn that the House of Lords have, in their Standing Orders, just published, adopted the rules established by the Standing Orders' Corn mitte of the House of Commons, in 1837, and in like manner ordered that the railway sections and plans should be laid down in juxta position, after the manner invented by Mr. Macneill, C. E., and now appearing in a plate attached to the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament. RADICAL DEMONSTRATION IN CARLISLE.-- Thursday last was the day fixed upon by the Radicals of Cumberland for a " Grand Demonstration" in favour of the People's Charter and the National Petition. Great pai ns appear to have been taken to make this an effective display. Delegates were sent from the Council of the Union at Car lisle, to Wigton, Cockermouth, Penrith, and other principal towns, to rouse the working classes to take part in the pro ceedings. A great number of the most popular leaders amongst the Radicals were invited to attend, and so awaken Public curiosity. The time fixed upon for holding the meet ing was the principal race day, when the town is us ua ll y well-filled with visitors—a circumstance which it was quite proper to take advantage of, and which we merely name as a fact necessary to be known, as it was alluded to by some of the speakers. As in other places, there has been much disput ing as to numbers, we deputed two or three persons to count those who took part in the procession as they passed different parts of the city. The number, as thus ascertained by per sons on whom we could rely, amounted to between 1,640 and 1,700. A member of the Union, however, has stated to us that there were 1,013 files of 4 each—making a total of 4,052. Yet O'Connor and Stephens both declared there were " tens of thousands" present I—[ We have taken the above account from the Carlisle Journal, several of the columns of which are occupied with the report of the respective speakers at the meeting.] An inquest was held yesterday at Islington on the body of Mr. Joseph Spey, who committed suicide by swallow.. ing a quantity of prussic acid. Deceased had formerly been in a large way of business in Finsbury as a Staffordshire ware houseman, but had recently been greatly reduced, which cir cumstance preyed much upon his mind. Verdict-...." Tempo rary Derangement." On Monday last an event took place at Sirhowy, which has plunged three families in the greatest distress, and produced a sensation in the adjoining districts of which we re collect few examples. On that day four men, named James Griffiths, Thomas Griffiths (brothers), Thomas Lewis and Isaac Thomas, went into a coal-pit in the above works, the air of which was in a foul state, and having incautiously ven tured too far, they were incapable of returning. The fears of those ou the surface being excited by their long absence, efforts were made to extricate them ; but, after much labour on the part of those who undertook the work, they were at length reached, when unhappily the three first were found dead, and the fourth in a state of insensibility. The deceased have all left widows and families.—Monmouth Merlin. ABBEVILLE; OCTOBER 21.—The Conventionalist, Andre Dumont, former sub-prefect of Abbeville during the Empire, died yesterday, in the 80th year of his age. He was one of the youngest and probably one of the last survivors of that dreaded political body. We have heard related an expres sion of his, which does him great honour, and proves that, not withstanding the difficulty of the situation in which he was placed, Andre Dumont found means to spare the effusion of French blood. Having been sent into the department of the Somme, at a period when scaffolds covered the surface of France, he contrived not to be instrumental to the death of any suspect. " The revolutionary Com mittee called on me for blood," said he, in speakirg of this terrible epoch, " I sent it ink in its place. "—Memorial de Rouen. QUEEN ANNE'S LOVE FOR HER CONSORT. — Her friendships were flames of extravagant passion, ending in indifference or aversion. He r love to the Prince seemed, in ea for the eye of the world, to be pro di g iousl y g reat ; and great as was the passion of her grief, her sto mach was greater that very day he died she ate three very large and hearty meals, so that one would think that as other persons' grief takes away their appetites, her appetite took away her grief. Nor was it less remarkable where there was so great an appearance of love, the peculiar pleasure she took before his funeral in set tling the order of it, and naming the persons that were to attend, and placing them according to their rank and to the rules of precedence, which was the entertainment she gave herself every day till that solemnity was over. —Correspon dence of the Duchess of Marlborough. THE MAlLS.—Complaints continue to be made in v: u r r i g o h us b p y a s r i t : a c . f m th ., e country, of the irregularity of arrivals. , The Scotsman'of Saturday, says " We know not where the fault l l r i a e t s h , e b r u b t e th o e re Lo e n ig d h o t n mail, which was promised to be in Edin mwearrekets and two or threeseldom I,:uvrvaesffi twenty minutes past seven before the papers reached North mail, f ; and as our arrangements require us to go to press had nts n i ou o n t e l a wl r h r ii i s v e arrived htdh will i Iflaw e hasdm arrivesablalreltyi paragraphs. l t s i e m v c en t . 0 insertn Wednesday, the corn markets o r n .. t m h a e il ot n h o e t r Of course, we surprisedconv conveyance , yan e to e learn ,a go. f d ro m m any th h e ou F rs if l e ate H r.erald that the were before at a quarter before eight which ought to leave this at a quarter before seven, i occur r of ft b y the usual route, and was only quarter te • . seven, due provision would be made for the de. the times especially in mean time, we r equest the • ' fortnight more." the apple Crop winter. In expo instead t h led of o r t b y of Dorsetshire, that in orchards of thirty or fortiynascoremsethpearertiss not a bushel of fruit. STATE OF IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, OCT. 25. " Thy favourites grow not up by fortune's sport, Or from the crimes or follies of a Court ; On the firm basis of desert they rise, From long-tried faith, and friendship's holy ties." ADDISON. I stated in a former communication, some facts elucidatory of the state of public opinion on this side of the Channel. These facts, consisted, for the most part, of incidents arising out of the formation and progress of the " Precursor Society" —of the effects, already becoming manifest, of the last Tithe Act, on all classes of the community ; and of the altered tone, and new grounds of agitation taken by the friends of Reform in this country. And the inference deducible from such a state of public feeling was stated to be, that Liberal policy had made considerable advances ; and was in the ascendant . ; and consequently that the present Government continued to be popular, notwithstanding the doctrine of " measures not men," had come under private and public discussion since the close of the last Session. I now undertake to give you an epitome of opinions collected respecting the great conflict between the Whig and Tory party throughout the empire, and the reasons assigned, by many well informed persons here, why that conflict remains so long doubtful and undecided. The Conservative party ( I shall not write Tory, for I think that party, as such, is almost extinct) has continued, by some means or other, to be in favour with a greater portion of the Press than ever before supported them. There may be some doubt as to the truth of this assertion, as regards England and Scotland, but there is no question about it as to Ireland. The circulation of those Journals that support Conservatism here, is much greater than that of those supporting Liberal princi ples. Ad to this circumstance may, in a great measure, be ascribed the slow progress made by the principles of the pre sent Government amongst the well disposed and disinterested class of Protestants, whose greatest fault consists in their sub mission to that prejudice which confines their view to one side of the question. There are, however, two influences just now in operation, which will go very far to remove this ob stacle. The first is the appeal contained in the new Tithe Act, already adverted to, to the self-interest of the landlords in general, and to the consistency of those Protestant Whigs in particular, who always said it was unjust to exact the means of supporting their religious establishment from their Catholic fellow-countrymen. The second is the Report of the Railway Commissioners, containing a mine of statistical information, never before attempted to be worked to any practical use or benefit. You are aware it has stirred up a new and very legitimate sort of agitation, or discussion, between those who ad vocate the views of the Commissioners, and those who fear their projects and speculations in that way may be injured. The immediate result of this agitation will be a diffusion of the facts contained in the Reports, which, independently of other consequences, must be productive of respect for the know ledge and intelligence of its authors. Whether their sugges tions, or the projects of the private Companies, will be ulti mately successful, and carried into effect, need not now he determined. But so much real information respecting our moral and physical resources will be circulated, and so much light thrown upon these matters, as cannot fail to produce salutary effects, by removing many prejudices—more particu larly as the Report has been planned and executed on princi ples altogether unconnected with party politics. The at tempt made to brand it with the character of a job seems to have originated in our habitudes, under the old system, and the belief that a tendency to such practices is not yet sufficiently discountenanced. But the result of the meeting at Cork, where Mr. Quin's candid avowal of the motives of the Commissioners produced so favourable an im pression, will greatly facilitate this plan of reform and im provement. It is to be regretted that there are not many si milar works of merit, as auxiliaries of the good cause, to be im pressed upon public attention. On the contrary, many of the "best possible instructors" are otherwise employed than in diffusing useful knowledge. The tone assumed, and argu ments put forward by some of the Radical prints, so far from affording such an auxiliary, either misinform the public, or in duce them to suspect that these prints are under Tory influ ence. Whether such a suspicion be well founded or not, one thing is pretty clear, that the Liberal party are deficient in political tactique, and culpable in not adopting some means of preventing the appearances of instability in the Government ; which circumstance alone, during the last three years, has prevented many of those who always respect the Lowers that be from signifying their adhesion. But it may be asked, how can this be done ?—how such ap pearances of unfixedness prevented ? Certainly not by bribery nor by any other undue influence, directly or indi rectly exercised ; but by the Liberal party comporting them selves so, that any independent friend, no matter of what po litics, may be obliged to report what they learn, and thus publish, for their readers, those facts that are favourable to Liberalism. They should, for instance, be more united amongst themselves, and more unanimous in their resolves, and urgency for Reform ; and give evidence of this by facts to be circu lated by the Press. They should be more circumspect than they ever have been in the selection of their friends, and above all in not permitting, so far as they can prevent it, false notions to be set afloat as to their ulterior views and proceedings. This is a point on which they have been deficient and weak in advo cates, and support ; and consequently more liable to those charges which, when uncontradicted, create much prejudice. Why not put forward at once a declaration of the limits within which Reform should be bounded ; and thus avowing man fully the extent of the finality Reform to which the will advance, take the sense of the nation on the subject. It is the more necessary, inasmuch as ever since the formation of the Grey administration, in 1830 ; and more particularly since the modification of that Cabinet, under the Premiership of Lord Melbourne, Reformers have been assailed with every species of vituperation, from certain quarters, as abettors of Popery, and enemies to the principles of the Revolution of 1688. They have been accused of violent revolutionary movements ; and of pursuing such courses as must inevitably lead to changes foreign to the spirit, frame, construction, and safety of the British Constitution. They have been accused, in f ac t, of nothing less than a disposition to create anarchy, and resolve society into its primary elements. l Yet all these c harges are most easily refuted ;_ a u puain affairs, or to them being suggested by the positio fi n rs o t f b by the the condition in which they are placed, mismanage ment and corruption of the party that had so long the manage and secondly, by the perversncss of the same me nt of them ; party, that will not even now submit to a thorough and com plete Reform. This state of things places the present Minis ters under diff i c ulties which no other ever had to contend with. They hold their ilaces, not by means of Court intrigue or r epoi l iderance in an unreformed Parliament ; but great party p public opinion, clearly and decidedly developed by virtue of Not by the unanimous opinion of the people in their favour. of England it is true • for if so there would be no gleam of hope at all remaining .. 2 to the Tories ; but by the . inclination of an almost equipoised balance of approbation in that part of Kingdom, together with an overwhelming demon the United stration in Ireland , te stified une quivocally by more than two thirds of our representatives. Under ordinary circumstances, such a m ajority of Irish supporters alone ought not, pe r h a ps, to be regarded as a good criterion, or a l eg i t i mate ground for Ministers to rest upon in the government of this va s t em pi re . But when w e recollect what have been the embarassments op posint , t h e formation of an y stron g Government since the , death of Lord Liverpool—that these embarassments arose out of the struggles on behalf of civil and reli g i ous lib erty, and presented themselves mo st unequivocally on the side of Ireland _that the gr owin g power of civil and religious liberty through out the United Ki n g dom, com p elled th strongest Govern it that existed for the last dozen years, to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828—and that Ireland, alone and single-handed , c om p elled the same Government to grant Emancipation,b contrary to the avowed principles and prejudices of its chief members, Wellington and Peel, in the following year. .When we recollect that t he r ep r esentatives of Ireland wer e mainly instrumental in o btainin g Parliamentary and Cor porate Reform for England and Scotland a few y ears after; and that it was the necessity of legislating , for Ireland on anti hthisati,naabtiltiltiye g to eu r e e : Tory principles, that compelled confessing Robert . Peel to abandon the helm of the State in 1835, . in it. And when, again, we call to mind re tain election in 1837, this country not being at the time excited by any appeal to their nation al p re j ud ices or predilections, and being actuated by no other motive or feelin g th an a desire to support the Qu een and i Reform, an unprecedentedly large number of Liberal and independent Members were sent to the House of Commons in support of both. When, in addition to these r eminiscences, the transcendent fact, attested by Sir Robert Peel at Merchant Tailors' Hall, is recollected, namely —That Reform had so completely changed the nature of our polity, that Members of Parliament, and Ministers of the Crown, could no longer expect to hold their places by the same tenures by which they were wont to retain them—and that many of the precedents that both relied upon for support heretofore, could be no longer of authority. When those things are borne in mind, and with the firm support it has from the Liberals, the present Ministry may be regarded as placed beyond the reach of faction and petty jealousy or dis appointment. But though thus protected against the assaults of their opponents they may laugh at their manoeuvres, they should not be silent under their reproaches. But reproaches and taunts of the nature mentioned have been frequently cast upon them, and they have seldom been gravely and autho ritatively repelled, though frequent opportunities of doing so have presented themselves in Parliament and elsewhere. The propriety, and indeed the necessity of doing so, is the greater !00, because in the Liberal camp there are undoubtedly some iridividials, whose zeal for thorough Reform, getting above their. discretio n , g i ves co l our t o th e imputation of wild and in considerate innovation • while the policy and duty of the pre sent Government admonish' them not to despise the aid of such individuals, much less treat them as undeserving the attention due to such part of her Majesty's subjects. It may be , easily understo o d th at I h ere a ll u d e o nly to such men as I , eargus O'Connor or Mr. Oastler, and others of that class in En g land, and t o a f ew of those who aim at similar extremes in Ireland. The conduct of such men does excite prejudices against the party whom they seem to support. But it is the duty of the leading Whigs, and their friends, to avail themselves of every opportunity for disabusing t h e public mind of the prejudices s- . 0 excited. And y e t there i are few instances in which they I've don e so i n exp li c i t an d satisfactory terms; and without displeasing some of their most strenuous friends. When Lord John Russell some time ago opposed the Ballot, he did so in s ter— •, so repulsive, and regardless of public feeling on the subject, as to give offence to great numbers of the Liberal party. Not s o the Marquis of Normanby, the other day , when M r . Shaw provoked him to an expression of his sentiments on the great moral revolution now going forward. " The Recorder , " said h is Excellency, " alluded to the apprehension which lie thinks m ust b e felt ;- o f t h e many' tyrannizing over the I few.' I confess I have no such apprehension ; but, if I should be convinced, that in those days of enlightenment, of general information and education, I was wrong in the confi dence which I have placed in the unbounded loyalty and attachment to the spirit of the Constitution of ray fellow-subjects ; and that I should feel myself obliged to take my stand by the principles of that Constitution, I feel I might do so not the less successfully because I had given them my confidence, for I believe that in those days, there is no considerable proportion of persons so ignorant and unenlightened as not to see that the true interests of all mixed communities are involved in mutual protection ; and that those interests are best secured and preserved by the observance of peace and order, and the recognition of the true and legiti mate gradations of society." These sentiments and expressions, evidently unpremeditated, and elicited only by the pert philo sophy of the political Recorder, deserve to be stereotyped in letters of gold, as containing a plain answer to, and a dignified refutation of, all the charges brought, from time to time, against his Excellency's movements, and against that reform and improvement of which he is so efficient and distinguished a promoter. It is only on such occasions as that just men tioned, when all portions of the public Press are interested in publishing what takes place, that the public at large are in formed of the views and sentiments of Reformers. Those who confine themselves to the perusal of Tory papers, are, when Parliament is not sitting, deprived of all information as to the " sayings and doings" of the opposite party, for their Journals have adopted a practice, very beneficial to their party purposes, of publishing but one side of all questions, except such as are to the prejudice of their opponents. A very re markable instance of this kind of Machiavelian policy, or Tory tactics, has recently occurred ; a meeting was held in Water ford, on Saturday last, to consider the Report of the Railway Commissioners. It was got up for the purpose of disparaging that Report ; but, the independent people of Waterford de feated the intention, after much discussion favourable to the Report, by adjourning the meeting without passing any of the resolutions, which are said to have been concocted in, and sent down from this city. A different account, however, ap peared in the Mail of yesterday, with the view of keeping up the hopes of its party ! Such manoeuvres ought to be exposed and defeated. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF TITIS DAY.) TIME S.—The transactions in the funds generally have not been of much importance to-day, and the prices of Consols have been rather steady. They closed at 93 to 1 for money 4 and account. India Stock, however, was depressed, leaving off at 258 to 9. The accounts from India are looked upon as most unfavourable by the jobbers. Bank Stock was lower, and closed at 2021 to 3f. Exchange bills, 655. to 675. prem. There was little doing in the foreign house, and quotations underwent little alteration. Spanish Actives, with the May Coupons, were 1 7? to i ; Portuguese Five_ per Cents, 314 to 2+; the Three per Cents, 203- to 1 ; Brazilian were 78 to 4-; Mexican, 22 to 3- ; Colombian, 231- to 4+ ; Dutch Two-and- - a- Half per Cents., 54 to ; the Five per Cents., 1003- to. Railway shares were dull. Great Western, 13 to 14 ; Lon don and Birmingham, 84 to 5 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 1+ to :I- prem. ; Brighton, 2i to -1 discount. The accounts from Peru fully confirm those reported from Guayaquil. Orbegosa, appointed President by Santa Crua himself, who espoused his cause against Salaberry, who was defeated and expelled, had joined in the revolution, and was on his march from Lima to join General Nieto, who com manded in the district of Truxillo, and was at the head of the movement in which four of the northern departments had joined, proclaiming their secession from the confederation. The revolution appeared to be popular and was spreading. Santa Cruz had rendered himself unpopular in Piura by his decrees for shutting Payta, its port, against foreign trade, which is said to have been extremely prejudicial to the peo ple. Intelligence from Lima was anxiously looked for, as upon the issue of the rising there, the success of the revolu tion was considered mainly to depend. Santa Cruz had some Bolivian troops in that city, and General Miller held possession for him of the castles of Callao, so that the con federates would scarcely succeed in making much impres sion there. Santa Cruz himself was at Arequipa at the head of a strong body of forces, waiting for news of the arrival and point of disembarcation of the expedition from Chili, which it is now clear had sailed for Peru in pursuance of a combined plan of operations with the chiefs of the rising in the north. That expedition consisted of 4,000 or 5,000 men. The port of Payta was a great station for American whalers in the Pa cific, a list of considerable numbers of which that had entered since the commencement of the present year is given, with an account of their operations, which bad been successful. Advices from Buenos Ayres had been received to the 17th, and from Monte Video to the 25th, of August. There had been an attempt at revolution in the former place, which had failed, and a number of arrests had in consequence taken place. The markets were well supplied with goods from Monte Video, by means of the whale boats and small river craft, which contrived to elude the blockading squadron. Monte Video was hard pressed by Riveira and his troops, and a great scarcity of provisions began to be felt. CH RONIC L E.—No further depression has been expe rienced in the Consol Market by the publication this morning of the intelligence from the East Indies and Canada, but, on the contrary, its appearance is rather firmer ; and the uneasi ness which the reports on Saturday occasioned seems generally to be gradually wearing away. The market for shares remains in much the same state as last week, the quotations being almost stationary, and business rather limited. We are without any arrivals to-day besides the American packet, aid the voluminous accounts both from the United States and Canada, which appeared in the Morning Chronicle, have wholly forestalled the contents of the private letters. POST.—The mercantile advices which have been received from the United States by the Washington have for the most part been fully anticipated by the previous arrivals, though the tone of the information which they convey inclines us to ima gine that the trade of the United States generally was gra dually approaching to a more healthy condition. The Share Market continues very dull, from the circum stance that buyers who will pay up the bills are difficult to be found. HERALD.—The commercial advices from the United States (for political news we have not any) have been for the most part anticipated by the private correspondence which was published this day in the Morning Herald: in fact, during the short lapse of time between the present and the last advices it could not be expected that we should receive much impor tant information. The New Orleans Bee states that the sea son of business was approaching, and under better auspices than have attended the close of any autumn within its memory. The banks were to commence the payment of specie on the first day of the new year ; but it is added, that long before that day arrives specie will, in effect, be in circulation in sufficient quantities for all the purposes of domestic economy, provided that the municipal authorities adopt suitable measures to with draw their paper from circulation. By this arrival we have no further advices from our Cana dian possessions ; a private letter from New York, however, which has been received at the North and South American Coffee House, states that the advices from Canada on the Bth instant mention that many were of opinion that the Earl of Durham would retain his high office. Sir George Arthur and several of the leading men from Toronto arrived in Mon treal on the Thursday evening previous, on their way to meet the Earl of Durham at Quebec. The alarm which prevailed on Saturday respecting the po litical aspects of this country, both in India and our North American settlements, having rather abated, the British Funds have acquired rather a firmer tone than they exhibited at the close of the last week, although there has been no actual ad. vances in the quotations. The following fiendish act has been committed at Ash Backing. On Sunday week Mr. Stanford, of Ash Hock ing Hall, had one of a stall of nine bullocks, which were fat tening, die. Thinking that the animal died from inflamma tion, a very common effect of over-feeding, he did not pay par ticular attention to the circumstances of its death. On Satur day and Sunday lust two other beasts died, and several pigs which had eaten the refuse of the meal given to the animals alio died. The contents of the animals' stomachs were ana lysed, and found to contain arsenic. On Tuesday a fourth bullock died under the same circumstances. The supp , ‘;;ii en is that some diabolical villain had introduced - poi;on into the food from a feeling of reven ge . Altl'..oug hno person is yet in custody, strong suspicions arf, entertained against cer tain parties, and hopes are held out of bringing home the facts to therm. —Suffolk Chronicle. On Friday a fine sirl, aged eleven, daughter of Mr. Munu, grocer, of bogside, expired, from hydrophobia. Some weeks ago the deceased had been in a neighbour's house, ‘N hen a strange dog entered the apartment and bit her and the servant maid. The dog was secured and despatched. It was hoped no serious harm would result, but two days before her death she was attacked with spasms and other appalling symptoms of the disease, the progress of which was not to be baffled by the first medical skill. She retained her reason and self-possession to the last.—Derry Journal. DRArEit's MEN.—The Linen Drapers of this town have agreed to the propositions of the young men in their employ, viz. to close their shops from the Ist of Novem ber until the last day in February, at eight o'clock in the evens ing, Saturdays excepted, on which day the shops will remain open until nine—a very praiseworthy resolution, which we have no doubt will be followed throughout tho country.—Essex herald. .--_l A Correspondent writing on the " Linen Draper's question," observes, that " the next best thing to not over working the linen drapers' shopmen, would be certainly not to work them at all—at least in places which appear much more appropriate for females than for these calico-complaining sons of the counter. Measuring mode, tying up tape, smoothing silk, rolling up ribbon, clipping cloth, cutting calico, selling stays—all these operations arc properly the work of women, to whom the sleek, simpering sdns of the shop, should at length give place. The cause of justice, as well as of morality, would be benefited by the change."] Great interest is excited by the preparations for a tremendous fight, which is expected to take place in this town on Thursday next. Already are there strong symptoms of determination on either side, but the movement is most evi dent in the Tory camp. It is whispered that the men are all eager for the contest, and resolved to conquer. Some pre tend to say they are to be led to the field after the manner of horses enticed forward to be caught by a wisp of hay. This may be but a mere conjecture, arising from the simple circum stance of several butchers' trays having been observed, within the last few evenings, entering the doors of certain public houses, well laden with line legs of mutton. It may be but a jest, yet we k now t h at " many a true word is spokenin jest." There can be n o d ou b t that men fight the better i n m»ny cases, for a good feeding.— Warwick Advertiser, TLTRKE Y. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 3, 1838. When Redschid Pacha was first appointed to the English mission, it was supposed his departure was tantamount to his overthrow, but afterwards the great importance attached to the treaty of commerce with Eng land appeared to justify so serious a measure as the absence from head-quarters of this eminent statesman, who is the very key -stone of British influence here. There is no man among the Turks who has so strong an anti- Russian feeling as Redschid Pacha, nor any who desires more sincerely to strengthen the alliance between the Porte and our Government. But now that he is away, Russian Policy and Russian intrigue are again on the ascendant, and it will soon be seen that the momentary vigour displayed by the Sultan was of passion, not of strength, and that all the triumph of our diplomacy was merely to have fanned the antipathies of the Grand Seignior against the Viceroy of Egypt, and out of those antipathies to wrest a treaty of com merce, to which the Sultan can neither give effect in his own dominions, nor in those of his dependent, half-dependent, or wholly independent Paellas. Vast quantities of trash are sent home to your newspapers as to the regeneration of the Turkish empire. When ever the good sense of mankind will examine the real state of things, it will be discovered that the same elements of ruin, which for the last three centuries have been dragging the Ottoman empire lower and lower downwards to peidition, are at work, and never more at work, than when Turkey is assuming a tone, and taking up a position, utterly ridiculous with a reference to her means of action and influence. The same abuses, the same monopolies, the same pillage of the public treasures, the same exactions, the same oppressions, the same abandonment of agriculture, the same impoverish_ merit of the people, the same ignorance, the same fanaticism, which for many generations has been in full play, still continue their destructive influences; they are become part of the Turkish nature, and cannot be eradicated. The Russian pressure, which for a short time was removed—for Russia well knows how "to bide her time"—begins again to be felt. Her policy has had a great triumph in the course of European diplomacy__ a diplomacy which dreams of keeping together the Ottoman empire in its integrity (as it is called)—but which must infal libly exhaust, ruin, and overthrow that empire, by engaging it in struggles for which it is wholly unprepared. Out of its exhaustion Russia will profit. When its finances were far more prosperous than now it could not keep the Holy Cities, nor hold the Pachaliek of Ac , .e against a petty governor, nor stop the conquests of Mehemet Ali, nor maintain a foot of ground in Syria, nor put down a small body of insurrectionary Greeks, nor stop the progress of the Russians in Wallachia and Moldavia, nor deny to Prince Nlilosch of Servia an here ditary sovereignty, nor arrest the conquests of the French at Algiers, nor put down an Albanian revolt, nor prevent Nicho las from marching as a friend, and Ibrahim Pacha as an enemy, almost to the gates of Constantinople. Yet now it is fancied that the Sultan is to be set on the ancient throne of the Ca liphs—Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Candia, Barbary, Tripoli, Tunis, are to return to their ancient vassalage. The bowstring is to. be introduced, as of old, in Bornia and Bulgaria, in Bagdad, Anatolia, Khurdistan, on the Euxine and the Caspian. How far more wise would it be to look to the state of things as they are, instead of as they were! Would statesmen but turn away from the chimeras which seek to re-establish a dominion which has passed away, to consider how best the Ottoman empire might be accommodated to the course of events—how best the authority of the Sultan might be supported, where the great interests of commerce and mankind render it desirable it should be supported—how best the East can be really tran quillized by examining the condition of its various component: parts—the results might correspond to the desires of those who would fain witness a system of misrule, abuse, and anarchy, replaced by something at least like good government, or leading towards it. PORTUGAL. (From a Second Edition of the Morning Post.) We have just received, per mail of Liverpool steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Sunday, advices from our Lisbon Correspondent to the 23d inst. The dates of the Liverpool are from Gibraltar 18th, Cadiz 19th, Lisbon 23d, Oporto 24th, and from Vigo 25th instant. The Sir Lionel Smith steamer, belonging to the Bahia Steam Navigation Company, left Falmouth early on Satur day mornin ,, for Bahia, but was compelled to return in con sequence of very boisterous state of the weather. LISBON, OCT. 23.—The Miguelites do not appear to be in the least dismayed in the Algarves and the M emtejo , notwith standing t h e l arge f orce which the Government Journals assure us is constantly in their pursuit. One of young Remechido's Lieutenants, Rachado by name, entered the populous village of: Cereal, near Odernira, on the 15th, at the head of 100 cavalry, and he was only driven out of the place by the Queen's troops, after three hours' hard fighting., both parties losing several men in killed and wounded. Although no official account of this engagement has been published, you may rely upon the cor rectness of my information ; and I further hear from my friends at Series and Villa Nova de 111ilfontes, that Remechido has written letters to the Treasurers of the Public Funds, de siring them to forward the whole of the sums in their posses sion on a given day to a certain place, where some one, on his behalf, will be ready to receive them. He threatens them. with death if they do not comply. The French frigate Didon, with 500 men, and the Berye t e corvette, of 120 men, under Rear- Admiral La I3retonier e ,, ar rived in five days from Cadiz, on the 17th. La Jun.on still continues here. The Espoir, British brig-of-war, in two days from Oporto, came in likewise on the same day. The Count da Ponte, a young Portuguese nobleman, is just ar rived from Bahia. The Liverpool, with the Mediterranean mail, arrived here on Saturday evening, with only fire pas sengers, and she starts at eight a.m. for England. Great fears are entertained for the safety of the Royal Tar, whirlt ought to have arrived here on the 19th, with the London mail: of the 13th, and about thirty passengers, who were to go on to Madeira per the William . Faweett steamer, which is conse quently detained. _ _ - The Portuguese corvette Urania, with Admiral I%lcr3ulia, and other passengers on board, sailed yesterday for Angola. Exchange on London, 544 to 54i ; hardly any thing done. COMMERCIAL GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. Notwithstanding the many artful and insidious emleavour made by the friends and supporters of the gas monopolies a present existin g in the neighbourhood of the Tower Hamlets to frustrate the laudable design of the Commercial Gas-4h Company, to establish works in that populous district for the supply of a better quality of gas, and at a much cheaper rate, the commencement of this desirable undertaking was yesterday made amidst the hearty congratulations of a large and respect. able body of the inhabitants. The site of the proposed works are immediately adjoining the canal, upon a part of the premises known as the Ben Jonson-fields. At twelve o'clock, Messrs. Mercer and Carter, the engineers, were on the ground, and had marked out the boundaries of the proposed building. Shortly after Mr. Lamont, the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, arrived, accompanied by several mem bers of that body, and a large number of the Committee. Ile immediately proceeded to dig the first spadeful of earth, which, being done, several bottles of wine were broached, and " Success to the New Gas Company" was toasted, amid the hearty huzzas of those assembled, including the workmen, who were plentifully supplied with cans of: heavy wet ! After this ceremony had been performed, t'.7o Directors and members of the Committee, with a number of shareholders and other friends, who were present, retired to the Ben Jonson Tavern, where a splendid dejeune was pre pared by Mr. Swatton, the spirited proprietor. Upwa ,. ..ds of fifty gentlemen sat down to the entertainment, which co:nprised the choicest viands of the season. _ _ Mr. Lamont, in the absence of Mr. Goldie, the Chairman of the Company, presided. Mr. Bingley, the Chairman of the Committee, occupied the Vice Chair. After the usual loyal toast; had been proposed and warmly responded to, The Cnattotati gave " Success to the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company."—(Drunk with great enthusiasm.) The CIIAIRMAN next proposed " The health of the Con sumers of Gas in the Tower Hamlets."—(Cheers.) Mr. BINGLEY proposed " The health of the Chairman." Mr. LA MONT returned thanks. Mr. Moßnis proposed " The health of the Directors." Messrs. BUTLER 'and WILDBOAR severally returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN, in rising to propose the next toast, said, that without the co-operation and assistance of the Coin mittec, the Directors would have found it impossible to conduct the affairs of the Company to so favourable an issue as they had that day witnessed. It was quite unnecessary for him to descant upon the services which, collectively and individually, that body had rendered to the Company; suffice it to say, it was mainly to their exertions the Company were indebted for its present state of prosperity. lif; had, there fore, great pleasure in proposing.-- " The health of Mr. I3ingley, the Chairman, and the other Members of the Committee." Mr. BINGLRY begged that the Company would receive the tender of his best thanks for the co,,mpliment which they had just bestowed upon the Commit Ace. " The health of the strair,ers present" was then given. Mr. WHIFFEN returned thanks. " The health of the Officers of the Company." The SECRETARY (Mr. Nlullinder) returned thanks. Sevez al other toasts were given and responded to, after which the company separated highly gratified with the pro ceedings of the day. We before stated that the s umm it l eve l, i n passing RAILWAY FROM E NGLAND TO SCOTLAND.— the Lam mermuir Hills, was only 370 feet above the sea; but the re port informs us that this elevation may be r educed 30 or 40 feet by cutting, leaving the summit only 330 feet above the sea. The project has been received with a degree of favour, which shows that its importance is appreciated. A line of communication which would bring Newcastle within four hours', n and London within sixteen hours' travelling of Edinbur g h, would be productive of vast advanta g e to Scotland ._ Scotsman. BUYERS.—It have been p Q i s practised tised at the public wool m arkets of fork , Doncaster, &c., by a set of gene rally AknuoTwnlOtNhatTvoery‘Sgiro:tL impositions , wool and waste jobbers, who watch;the sales of large clips held by the dealers, and then give the dealers in question ext ra prices for the finest hog wool they think fit to " draw" out Th us the respectable wo o l buyers are robbed in the ver . y grossest manner possible by the very persons they place great c onfidence in, as regards the numbers of the different d e scrip_ of fleeces their parcels contain, in order to s•• but by which the impositions go undetected. .kve trouble, 'r wool buyers would do well to count 1 'o avoid this, out ta repack ing. —Bradford Observes'. v .log fleeces while